pkahn@meridian.ads.com (Phil Kahn) (04/08/88)
We will be receiving a MACII wit A/UX, and I have a few very important questions that I haven't been able to adequately get answered: 1) Can A/UX run most MacOS compatible software? (From reading past flames on A/UX, it seems to me that A/UX will not be able to run most software which was written for MacOS. Is this due to Toolbox problems in A/UX? What else?) 2) Can a MACII configured for A/UX be run under MacOS? Two big questions come up: (a) does the MMU chip cause problems for MacOS?, and, (b) can files created un A/UX be accessed from MacOS (and vice versa)? If either of these is a problem, then there seems to be no way to simply run a program in one OS, then switch to the other OS and use files. 3) How are device drivers handled for A/UX? Specifically, if I want to hang an Optical WORM drive currently hooked to a SCSI port on a SUN, what will A/UX require to drive the WORM drive? Please respond directly to me as well as the net (our recent move has temporarily muddled our netmail lines). Phil Kahn ARPA: pkahn@ads.arpa
paul@unisoft.UUCP (n) (04/09/88)
In article <3252@zodiac.UUCP> pkahn@meridian.UUCP (Phil Kahn) writes: >We will be receiving a MACII wit A/UX, and I have a few very important >questions that I haven't been able to adequately get answered: > >1) Can A/UX run most MacOS compatible software? (From reading past > flames on A/UX, it seems to me that A/UX will not be able to run > most software which was written for MacOS. Is this due to Toolbox > problems in A/UX? What else?) >2) Can a MACII configured for A/UX be run under MacOS? Two big > questions come up: (a) does the MMU chip cause problems for MacOS?, > and, (b) can files created un A/UX be accessed from MacOS (and vice > versa)? If either of these is a problem, then there seems to be no > way to simply run a program in one OS, then switch to the other OS > and use files. >3) How are device drivers handled for A/UX? Specifically, if I want to > hang an Optical WORM drive currently hooked to a SCSI port on a SUN, > what will A/UX require to drive the WORM drive? > >Please respond directly to me as well as the net (our recent move has >temporarily muddled our netmail lines). > >Phil Kahn >ARPA: pkahn@ads.arpa -- Paul Campbell, UniSoft Corp. 6121 Hollis, Emeryville, Ca E-mail: ..!{ucbvax,hoptoad}!unisoft!paul Nothing here represents the opinions of UniSoft or its employees (except me) "Nuclear war doesn't prove who's Right, just who's Left" (ABC news 10/13/87)